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Langston Hughes
He was a American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. One of the earliest innovators of the past-present literary art form called jazz poetry. He published "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is published in the NAACP journal Crisis. -
Marcus Garvey
Proponent of Black nationalism in Jamaica and especially in the United States. Was a leader of a mass movement called Pan-Africanism and he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). After arriving in New York in 1916, he founded the Negro World newspaper which was an international shipping company called Black Star Line and the Negro Factories Corporation. He was later sent to prison in 1923 after being indicted for mail fraud. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
